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TIL that the rumbling sound your belly makes when you're gassy is called borborygmus

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x78g TIL one of the oldest olive trees is 2000-4000 years old, and still produces olives.
M7en8 TIL that on the atoll of Pinglelap, 10% of the population is affected by total colorblindness, with another 30% being unaffected carriers of the gene. This is due to a population bottleneck caused by a typhoon in 1775 that left 20 survivors on the atoll. One carried the colorblindness gene.
b119 TIL of Xenophon Zolotas, a former Greek Prime Minister who would give speeches in English only using words of Greek origin.
6E6lw TIL In 1897 a Swedish Balloonist and his two colleagues began their nationally covered journey to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. Four decades later a whaling ship came across their remains on a small arctic island, having crashed and perished in the tough arctic climate.
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